Rafael Benitez Goal Quotations

Defensive? When you see how many chances we had? We scored one goal and created opportunities,

The team has a lot of confidence in games. We know we can concede goals and still win matches. But it would be good to go in front and keep a clean sheet in these games instead.

It's his birthday and scoring goals is the best way to celebrate for a striker but we are not talking about his new contract. That'll be the next question. I like to see him scoring goals, for sure, and also playing well. The most important thing for us is to see him working hard until the end. He did that.

I'm delighted with the result and also the performance. Sometimes you can't score a goal with 30 attempts but today it seemed every shot was a goal.

I am happy with the performance of the team but we should have scored more goals and their goalkeeper played very well. I told the players at halftime to finish the game off but we couldn't get the third goal.

The two forwards scored in this game which is good for the team. The second goal relaxed the team and it's important that we kept a clean sheet.

We controlled the tempo in the first half but after we conceded the goal it was difficult.

If you saw the first half, you wouldn't have known who was top of the table. Conceding the first goal meant they could play as they like -- on the counter-attack -- for the rest of the game.

It was a difficult game because we created a lot of opportunities, but we never scored the second goal so they continued going forward.

There was a nervousness there and we've put ourselves under pressure. When you are not scoring, you cannot afford to give the opposition one or two chances. We needed that second goal to finish the game.

I don't want to blame the officials. For me the most important thing is to score goals with the number of opportunities we are creating.

He has done a good job for us. For a striker it is really important to score goals and now I will have more options.

We need to analyze a few more things. I am not in a hurry but if he continues to score goals then it will be an easy decision. The more he scores, the more he's likely to stay.

In my opinion, we had a good first-half and they had a good second-half. But football is all about scoring goals and we scored two and they only scored one,

I am really happy because we played well, scored goals and could have won by a lot more than 3-1 in the end.

If I say 'no' it will be difficult for me, but he will understand, and if I say 'yes' it will be good for me, him and the supporters. I am not in a hurry, but if he continues to score goals then it will be an easy decision. The more he scores, the more he's likely to stay.

We were all waiting for Robbie to score his first goal back at Liverpool and it was a reward for his hard work.

If you are going to win a game by a single goal, that is the kind of goal you want it to be. It was very important for Harry after all he has been through.